Re: DESC difference between 7 & 8?

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:10:16 +0100
Message-ID: <9fj05uour82gh8d2ul9l4rjh6n3hr5pmeg@4ax.com>

On Thu, 24 Jan 2002 08:17:03 -0900, Calvin Crumrine <Calvin_Crumrine_at_dced.state.ak.us> wrote:

>We're in the process of moving from 7.3.4 on Netware to 8.1.7 on Win2K.
>I was dismayed to discover that the DESC command acts differently on the
>2 servers. Is this controllable? Maybe the defaults are set differently?
>
>When connected to the 7.3.4 server DESC lists both field names &
>datatypes. When connected to the 8.1.7 server DESC lists only the field
>names. If there's not a default setting I can change is there a script I
>can run to list both field names & datatypes? We've been relying on this
>as a quick way to check the datatypes when writing applications.
>
>TIA.
AFAIK, you are the first to report this.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

To reply remove -verwijderdit from my e-mail address Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 12:10:16 CST